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Arjan Diepstra
dr.

As a hematopathologist, I work on diagnostics of all types of hematological malignancies using a comprehensive panel of different techniques. Moreover, my main research interest involves Hodgkin lymphoma, with a strong focus on interactions between tumor cells and the microenvironment. In addition, I also have a long standing interest in genetic susceptibility. My areas of expertise are: immunology, tumor cell biology, genetic association studies and molecular diagnostics in pathology. I actively participate in international (EORTC) and national (HOVON) clinical trials.

Artery tertiary lymphoid organs in giant cell arteritis are not exclusively located in the media of temporal arteries.
Published in: Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases
Identification of relevant drugable targets in diffuse large B-cell lymphoma using a genome-wide unbiased CD20 guilt-by association approach
Published in: PLoS ONE
Forty percent of patients with diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL) show resistant disease to standard chemotherapy (CHOP) in combination with the anti-CD20 monoclonal antibody rituximab (R). Although many new anti-cancer drugs were developed in the last years, it is unclear which of these drugs can be safely combined to improve standard therapy without antagonizing anti-CD20 efficacy. In this study, we aimed to identify rituximab compatible drug-target combinations for DLBCL. For this, we collected gene expression profiles of 1,804 DLBCL patient samples. Subsequently, we performed a guilt-by-association analysis with...
Erratum: The microenvironment of classical Hodgkin lymphoma: heterogeneity by Epstein-Barr virus presence and location within the tumor (vol 6, e417, 2016)
Published in: Blood cancer journal
R. Wu, A. Sattarzadeh, B. Rutgers, A. Diepstra, A. van den Berg, L. Visser
Erratum: Lydia Visser et al. Characterization of the Microenvironment of Nodular Lymphocyte Predominant Hodgkin Lymphoma
Published in: International Journal of Molecular Sciences
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Ahmad Sattarzadeh, Lydia Visser, Bea Rutgers, Arjan Diepstra, Anke van den Berg
MicroRNA High Throughput Loss-of-Function Screening Reveals an Oncogenic Role for miR-21-5p in Hodgkin Lymphoma
Published in: Cellular physiology and biochemistry
Background/Aims: Classical Hodgkin lymphoma (cHL) is among the most frequent lymphoma subtypes. The tumor cells originate from crippled germinal center (GC)-B cells that escaped from apoptosis. MicroRNAs (miRNAs) play important roles in B-cell maturation and aberrant expression of miRNAs contributes to the pathogenesis of cHL. Our aim was to identify oncogenic miRNAs relevant for growth of cHL using a high-throughput screening approach. Methods: A lentiviral pool of 63 miRNA inhibition constructs was used to identify miRNAs essential to cell growth in three cHL cell lines in duplicate. As...
Ye Yuan, Fubiao Niu, Ilja M. Nolte, Jasper Koerts, Debora de Jong, Bea Rutgers, Jan Osinga, Maria Azkanaz, Martijn Terpstra, Leonid Bystrykh, Arjan Diepstra, Lydia Visser, Agnieszka Dzikiewicz-Krawczyk, Klaas Kok, Joost Kluiver, Anke van den Berg